HelchPOS vs NOQ
NOQ is event-led: festivals, one-off sites, device rental by the day. HelchPOS is built for a venue that opens every day and has to know its margin. Helch Market Winchester ran on NOQ before this product existed, so this page is written from having actually traded on both.
| HelchPOS | NOQ | |
|---|---|---|
| Counter till (POS)me&u and peazi connect to a till rather than being one. | ✓ | ✓ |
| QR ordering on the guest’s own phone | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kitchen screen (KDS)Square charges per screen; Lightspeed lists it as new. | ✓ | – |
| Self-order kiosk | ✓ | – |
| One basket across several kitchens, paid onceThe food-hall question. The three general-purpose systems do not describe it. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Money split to each kitchen automaticallyWho gets what when one payment covered three kitchens. | ✓ | ✓ |
| A meal deal spanning two different kitchensBurger from one unit, drink from another, one price. Nobody else describes it. | ✓ | – |
| Loyalty for returning guestsOurs is one card for the whole hall rather than per kitchen. | ✓ | – |
| Ingredient-level recipe costing, stock taken by dishHalf means stock counts exist without recipe-level depletion being described. | ✓ | – |
| A photograph of a supplier invoice becomes a delivery | ✓ | – |
| Rota, clocking, holiday and contractsDINES lists staff management without the employment record. | ✓ | – |
| An API for your own reports and apps | ✓ | ✓ |
| Card payments processed for youOurs is the cross. HelchPOS records a card taken on your own terminal and never touches the money — deliberately, so you keep your acquirer and your rate. | ✗ | ✓ |
| Keeps trading with the internet downAlso ours. Kitchen bumps survive a drop; the till cannot complete a sale offline. | ✗ | – |
| What it costs | £0for the software. A percentage only if you ever let us take the card payment. | On applicationSold by event. |
Read off NOQ’s own public pages on 2026-08-17 (fresher dates are marked in the text). A dash is not a criticism — it only means we would not assert it for them. Wrong about your product? Tell us and we will change the cell.
Who should pick whom
Pick NOQ if…
You run events rather than a venue: you want hardware rented per festival, payments processed for you, and a supplier whose whole operation is shaped around a three-day site build.
Pick HelchPOS if…
You trade daily and the till is the start, not the point: recipes that cost themselves, stock taken by dish, staff records with legal teeth, and software that costs nothing while you keep your own card machine.
The long read, with the operating detail behind each row: HelchPOS vs NOQ, at length → · the full seven-way table →
Or just try ours.
The software is free — not a trial. If it is not better by the weekend, close the tab.